THE QUALIFICATIONS OF SYMBOLIC NARRATION LANGUAGE AND OTTOMAN MINIATURE ART AS VISUAL EVIDENCE IN NARRATIVE PRODUCTION PROCESS OF SIXTEENTH CENTURYOTTOMAN PERIOD FILMS

This study is aims to put forward qualifications of symbolic language structure of miniatures so that they could be be benefited from as visual evidence features of ottoman miniature art in Narrative Production Process of Ottoman Period Films. This study has critical literature assessment and visual text analysis. There is symbolic narrative language made with visual signs in ottoman miniatures and this narrative has stylized, schematic formats as visual sign of time, space, event, figure, object and their socio-cultural processes representing social life. These stylized, schematic formats related to social reality onminiature give us general conception and the main features of social life. With the qualifications, Ottoman miniature has realist-naturalist features much more than the other West and East societies and is a document providing visual evidence. Benefitting from miniature in scenario writing phase for Ottoman period film narrative is necessary to learn social life from symbolic narration language. Therefore it is very important to developminiature literacy to form the Ottoman film narrative.